After Fianna Fáil won the election of 1932, the Cumann na nGaedheal Government chose to cede power peacefully to its former civil war opponents. This did not usher in democratic stability though, as Fianna Fáil continued to depict itself as an all-encompassing national movement and Cumann na nGaedheal tried to reinvent itself in ways that failed to accept the normality of opposition. First, they tried to form a cult of personality around W. T. Cosgrave, and then, when that failed, they incorporated some of the strategies of continental fascism. In so doing, they again attempted to define politics as best embodied in a single national movement with a strong nationalist leader. It was only after the failure of the turn toward fascism that Irish politics truly became accepting of multiparty democracy.